Only the basic information is available to the student, however, but opportunities for outside learning present themselves throughout the text via website links embedded in images and the exhaustive list of references following each chapter to direct the cerebral student to more advanced research in the field. Additionally, the inclusion of chapters dedicated to pharmacogenomics and customized ...

In this study an investigation using log-files of teachers’ Collections of educational resources in two different platform was conducted. The goal was to find empirical evidence from the field that teachers use and reuse learning resources that are in a language other than their mother tongue and originate from different countries than they do, for this, the term cross-boundary use of learning ...

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A number of studies have shown that mothers hyperarticulate vowels in their Infant Directed Speech to their 6-month-old infants. Here we investigate the possibility that such hyperarticulation might also occur for lexical tone for mother-infant dyads in tone language environments, and possible changes in mothers’ vowel and such tone hyperarticulation in IDS across the infant’s first year. IDS f...

This study aimed to examine the prospective teachers’ metaphors regarding the concepts of teacher, teaching, learning, instructional material, and evaluation. A total of 389 prospective teachers voluntarily participated in the study. The results revealed that the prospective teachers’ metaphors regarding the concepts of teacher, teaching, learning, instructional material, and evaluation constit...

This paper analyzed live pig production, consumption and price, and proposed the monitor system and the early warning mechanism. It is indicated that the study has a theoretical and practical significance in this area in China. In the view of the unusual fluctuation in the current live pig and its product prices, we carried out more works in live pig risk factors, fluctuation, detection methods...

School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 WA Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, 2351 NSW Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, 3554 Victoria Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 2640 NSW Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001 Tasmania...

Over recent years, many scholars have studied the conceptual modeling of information systems based on a model of representation formulated by Wand and Weber. This model offers a set of premises about representational deficiencies and their implications for development and use of conceptual modeling in IS practice. Yet, only few examples of empirical research exist. One of the related problems i...